[NBLUG/talk] hard drive death, filesystem types

[Bob Blick]

I had a very depressing hard drive failure today. I learned two 
things today:

1. Maxtor drives really are junk, just like everyone says.
2. reiserfs is bad. There seem to be no tools to rescue anything off 
this drive.

So I'm looking at filesystem types for my new Seagate drive.

Any suggestions? I'm leaning towards ext2 since there are proven 
tools for it, and this computer is running on a UPS so it's not 
likely to get turned off accidentally.

Any comments about filesystems?
Any help for rescuing my reiserfs disk?

Thanks,

Bob